Posted by Charles Russell on 09/20/06 03:12

Tom Cole wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:53:22 GMT, Charles Russell
> <SPAMworFREEwor@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> Tom Cole wrote:
>>> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:50:08 GMT, Charles Russell
>>> <SPAMworFREEwor@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> dadiOH wrote:
>>>>> peter wrote:
>>>>>> I need to transfer spoken word files I have to mp3. When the files
>>>>>> are played on my mp3 player there are brief but annoying gaps in
>>>>>> playback ie the whole thing does not play seamlessly as the cd
>>>>>> does.I have tried *mp3 merge* in the hope that it would restore the
>>>>>> *seamless* playback,but no luck.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am using CDex.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whats causing this
>>>>> The necessity of MP3s to end on a frame.
>>>>>
>>>>>> and is there a way around it?
>>>>> Rip the CD as one big file.
>>>>>
>>>> Are there any portable players that will then let you bookmark the point
>>>> where you stop listening, play something else, and then return? Ipod
>>>> does this but only for files in their own audiobook format, not for
>>>> something ripped or recorded from tape.
>>> Any player that can run the free Rockbox software. See
>>> http://rockbox.haxx.se for details.
>> The rockbox web site mentions "in-track resume", but not bookmarking.
>> Is that "in-track resume" remembered while you play something else or
>> switch off the player? (The kind of "in-track resume" you would want
>> for an audiobook.) If you could set multiple bookmarks it would be even
>> better.
>
> No, bookmarking is a separate feature. The bookmarking facility can be
> set up in a number of different ways.. You can have a large number of
> separate bookmarks.
>
> See http://www.rockbox.org/manual.shtml and download the pdf manual for
> the hardware of your choice. Search for "bookmark" to get an idea of how
> it workYs.

Yes, very nice. This overcomes the major objection to the "one big
file" solution to the problem of the original poster.

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